Location: Melbourne (Hybrid)
Permanent role
Start Date: January
Salary: $130k - $150k Base + Super
About the Role We’re looking for an experienced IT Release Manager to join a delivery-driven team within an enterprise environment . This is a permanent role where you’ll lead and manage the end-to-end release lifecycle—ensuring smooth, coordinated delivery of software and platform changes across multiple environments.
You’ll be hands-on in planning, coordinating, and executing releases while
working closely with technical, infrastructure, and business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate and manage release activities across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
- Ensure alignment with change and release management frameworks, including risk assessments and rollback planning.
- Facilitate release planning sessions, go/no-go meetings, and post-implementation reviews.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to track dependencies and resolve conflicts across multiple delivery streams.
- Monitor and manage non-prod environments, ensuring availability and readiness for each release phase.
- Provide clear reporting and release visibility to stakeholders across the business.
- Proven experience as an IT Release Manager within large, complex organisations.
- Strong understanding of release governance , ITIL/Change Management , and enterprise-level deployment processes.
- Hands-on experience in Azure-based environments , with solid cloud platform awareness.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jira, ServiceNow).
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, both technical and business-facing.
- Experience managing releases in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments.
- Experience with CRM systems or customer portals .
- Prior experience in regulated sectors such as finance, utilities, or government.
- Exposure to automation within Azure DevOps or Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) environments.
- Join a high-impact, Azure-native transformation project
- Be part of a collaborative and experienced delivery team
- Hybrid work setup – Melbourne-based team
